Moving-picture apparatus.



H. VOEGE.

MOVING PIGTURE APIARATUS.

APPLICATION nun P113. 8, 1909.

938,729. Patented Nov. 2, 1909.

IN VEN TOR.

IWITNESSES: V I V em" 04 e BY V W UNITED STATES HENRY ,VOEGE, 015' ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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MOVING-PICTURE APPARATUS.

Specification of letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1909.

Application filed February 8, 1909. Serial No. 476,839.

' State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Moving-Picture Apparatus, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a art hereof.

y invention has relation to improvements in moving picture apparatus; and it consists in the novel features more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

.In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a conventional moving picture machine showing the application of my invention; and Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are sectional views of various reflecting surfaces or mirrors onto which the pictures are projected.

It is the usual practice in exhibiting moving pictures to project the same on a screen properly distanced from'the lens .of the machine by which the light rays are dispersed, the plane surface of the screen showing the pictures or objects in normal and natural proportions. I

In order to lend diversity to the amusement thus afforded, .it is the object of my invention to project the images or'pict-ures on to a reflecting surface, the configuration ofwhich shall depart-from a perfect plane, thereby reflecting the objects in a contorted and grotesque outline, a result quite familiar to persons who have had occasion to stand before a convex or concave mirror, or in factany mirror whose reflecting surface is not a perfect plane. In the case of a moving picture machine however, the light rays can notbe projected directly upon the surface of the glass or mirror, but the light rays must first be filtered throu h a screen composed of woven cloth or sil after which in alling on the glass surface they are reflected without injury to the eyes of the observer. The final result is that the pictures reflected by the mirror assume various grotesque and fantastic forms according to thevcurvature of thesurface of the mirror, and considerable amusement is afforded thereby.

- The advantages of the invention will be best a parent from a detailed description thereo which is as follows Referring to the drawings, and for the present to Fig. 1, M, represents an ordinary moving picture machine provided with the picture film a which is advanced by suitable mechanism actuated by the crank-arm c as well understood in the art. The pictures are projected onto a concave mirror 1 after the light rays have been previously filtered through a translucent screen 2 made of closely woven cloth or silk. The filter arrests the intensity of the rays which if let fall directly on the mirror would by reason of their reflection obscure the picture which is supposed to be behind the mirror. In effeet the icture may be considered as being first pro ected on the filter or screen, and as the images appear on the screen they are reflected. by the mirror on the same order as if the living person were performing in frontof the mirror. Since the surface of the latter departs from a true plane everything seen in the mirror appears distorted.

I do not, of course, wish to limit the surface of the mirror to any particular contour, and in Fi s. 2, Sand 4 I illustrate. mirrors 1, 1", an 1 with convex, wave-like and vertically concave reflecting faces. Of course, any combination of curved surfaces may be em loyed ofiwhich the number is obviously a most infinite.

Having described my invention, what- I claim is 1. In combination with a moving picture machine, a reflecting receiving surface, and a screen for intercepting a portion of the light and softening its effect, interposed betweenthe surface and the machine.

2. In combination with a moving picture machine, a curved reflecting surface to receive the pictures, and a screen or filter of woven fabric for partiallyinterceptingthe light rays.

3. In combination with a moving picture machine, a' curved glass or mirror for receiving the pictures, and a screen for interceptin a portion of the light and softening its efi ect, interposed between the glass and the machine.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

in presence of two witnesses. 

